Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

812 Zeus Keraunobolos, Keraunios ;

the king of gods and men. On a stool or couch, the posts of which
were once topped by a pair of kneeling Giants, is spread the
royal mantle. Upon this lies a great winged thunderbolt; beyond

Fig. 778.

it is seen a transverse sceptre ; and a powerful eagle mounts guard
over all.

Sling- bullets of lead marked with a thunderbolt and inscribed—■
Victory of Zeus Keraunios—
have occasionally been found in Sicily (fig. 779)1. They were doubt-

Fig- 779- a~c-

less used in the second Servile War (103—100 B.C.) by the insurgent

1 Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 2407, 3 a—d. See further A. Salinas ' Catalogo di ghiande
missili siciliane' in the Ann. d. Inst. 1878 1. 32 f. nos. 6 and 7 pi. F (=my fig. 779, a, b):
NIKH I AIOC || KEPAV|NIOV and AIOC [ NIKH || [KEPAVNIOV].
Both bullets are in the Museum at Palermo. T. Bergk Inschriften rd?uiscker Schleuder-
geschosse Leipzig 1876 pp. 95 ff., 134 no. 143 pi. 2. 39 ( = my fig- 779) c) adds a similar
example from Cumae in Campania: AIOC [ NIKH |j K£PAY| NIOY (retrograde).